Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 22:15:18 12/30/98
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On December 31, 1998 at 00:37:16, D Ridge wrote: >Greetings! >Can anyone tell me - if I have CM5000 running with another application open at >the same time just idling behind the scene, lets say Excel or Word...Does it >effect the speed or performance of CM5000? > >Thanks >Dave It depends on whose move it is. Pondering will be affected somewhat. See below for info from Shep. "It's true the performance meter shows "100%" when CM is running. But when another program is active, it doesn't mean CM freezes it completely. My early tests (back when I had only one machine to test) indicate that CM 5500 typically takes about 25% of CPU time when idle. That means, if you run, say, CM 5500 vs. Fritz (which takes <2%), you'd have to reduce CM's time to 75-77% of Fritz' time. Run some test positions with fixed ply depth in CM 5500 and CM 6000, both running alone and with the other CM active. This will show how much CPU time they steal from each other." -- Komputer Korner
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